Putting their money where their mouths are

Clergy and lay delegates at the annual council, faced with a slashed budget for Shrine Mont camp scholarship budgets, were strident in their call to have the funding restored.
But of course, when you restore something in one line, you must cut it somewhere else, right?
So it was put to the council: how many of [...]

Live from the Diocese of Virginia Annual Council

I’m at the press table, although if any of you are here you’re not likely to be reading this since you’re at Eucharist.
But I will probably be here tomorrow, too, so please find me!!

sticking my neck out

Wah. I am starting to sound like a one-note flute sometimes, I guess, when I defend the fringes. But there is one place I’m hard and fast on when it comes to tradition, and that’s church music.
I love hymns and anthems, and I really should be in the choir, but EfM takes precedence right now [...]

That’s me in the corner

OK, if I’ve managed to figure out one thing, it’s that I want my ministry to be in the world and vaguely evangelistic, because I don’t really like that word but don’t have a better one for it. And it occurred to me, that …
If I was new to the church, and walked in one [...]

Is it me, or are Pisky-Women…

… more likely to be astute admirers of English Literature, particularly of the Austen-Woolf corridor?
I’m starting to feel typecast in my own novel. Well, at least I don’t have a collar and a crush on the local police chief.

Welcome to Episcopalia

Now some round these parts might think to be all splittin’ hairs over this and that in the anglican communion, but really, nothing gets Episcopalians up in a row more than standing firm about their parking spaces.

For future reference

Cool sermons from St. Mark's in Philly. Must visit.

http://www.saintmarksphiladelphia.org/sermons/

It's official…

I start EFM in January. Education for Ministry is a continuing education program of theological education. Given that right now I'm not in a position to pursue an academic program, I think this is a perfect bridge.

Red doors

Last month's issue of Episcopal Life had a piece on red doors. The consensus
is that those doors represent sanctuary.

http://www.episcopal-life.org/26727_62882_ENG_HTM.htm

This is just in case you, like me, have an interest in big old
churches with red doors. That link will add it to your interest list as
well.

OMG I've done it.

Someone said, “May the force be with you.”
And I said, “And also with you.”
(edit: Hugh, there's a name for your panel right there.)

Episco = from the fish

this will only be of interest to a few of you, but because I don't know who all of you are, i'm posting it
aloud.
right now, there's a meeting going on in Nottingham. The Anglican Communion has basically told the Episcopal Church of the U.S. (and the Anglican Church in Canada) to explain its stance on [...]